Example Questions

Example Question #1 : Sat Subject Test In Literature

1 Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; 2 My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. 3 Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, 4 Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. 5 Oh, could I lose all father now! For why 6 Will man lament the state he should envy? 7 To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, 8 And if no other misery, yet age! 9 Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say, "Here doth lie 10 Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry, 11 For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such 12 As what he loves may never like too much."

"flesh's rage," (Line 7) is an example of __________.

Possible Answers:

metaphor

personification

alliteration

simile

Onomatopoeia

Correct answer:

personification

Explanation:

"flesh's rage," (Line 7) is an example of personification, giving an inanimate object or abstract idea a living quality.

Example Question #1 : Sat Subject Test In Literature

1 Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; 2 My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy. 3 Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, 4 Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. 5 Oh, could I lose all father now! For why 6 Will man lament the state he should envy? 7 To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, 8 And if no other misery, yet age! 9 Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say, "Here doth lie 10 Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry, 11 For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such 12 As what he loves may never like too much."

In lines 9–10, "Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say, 'Here doth lie/Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry,'" the speaker refers to his dead son as a "piece of poetry." This is an example of __________.

Possible Answers:

simile

metaphor

caesura

spondee

personification

Correct answer:

metaphor

Explanation:

When the speaker refers to his dead son as a "piece of poetry," (Line 10), this is an example of metaphor, a comparison made between two essentially unlike things.

Example Question #1 : Sat Subject Test In Literature

1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6 And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8 By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, 11 Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, 12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; 13 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

"Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade," (line 9) is an example of __________

Possible Answers:

assonance

consonance

personification

alliteration

satire

Correct answer:

personification

Explanation:

"Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade," (line 9) is an example of personification, as personification is a figure of speech wherein an inanimate object or idea is endowed with human qualities or abilities. In this case, death is said to brag.

Example Question #1 : Literary Terminology And Devices

1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6 And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8 By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, 11 Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, 12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st; 13 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The speaker's claim that "this gives life to thee" in line 14 is arguably an example of __________.

Possible Answers:

alliteration

hyperbole

personification

metaphor

asyndeton

Correct answer:

hyperbole

Explanation:

The speaker's claim that "this gives life to thee" (line 14) is an example of hyperbole, as the speaker is making an exaggerated claim that his or her poetry will give the beloved immortality.

Example Question #1 : Literary Terminology And Devices

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

1 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 2 I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 3 My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 4 For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 5 I love thee to the level of everyday's 6 Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 7 I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 8 I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 9 I love thee with the passion put to use 10 In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. 11 I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 12 With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, 13 Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, 14 I shall but love thee better after death.

This fourteen-line rhyming lyric poem is a typical .

Possible Answers:

haiku

elegy

sonnet

limerick

pastoral

Correct answer:

sonnet

Explanation:

This fourteen-line rhyming lyric poem is a typical sonnet written in iambic pentameter.

Example Question #1 : Literary Terminology Describing Poetry

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

1 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 2 I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 3 My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 4 For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 5 I love thee to the level of everyday's 6 Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. 7 I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 8 I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 9 I love thee with the passion put to use 10 In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. 11 I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 12 With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, 13 Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, 14 I shall but love thee better after death.

"I shall but love thee better after death," (line 14) can be described as .

Possible Answers:

a simile

asyndeton

metonymy

alliteration

hyperbole

Correct answer:

hyperbole

Explanation:

"I shall but love thee better after death," (line 14) can be described as hyperbole, as it is an exaggerated figure of speech.

Example Question #1 : Literary Analysis Of British Poetry To 1660

Batter my heart (Holy Sonnet 14)

1 Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you 2 As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; 3 That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend 4 Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. 5 I, like an usurp'd town, to another due, 6 Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. 7 Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, 8 But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. 9 Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, 10 But am betroth'd unto your enemy; 11 Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, 12 Take me to you, imprison me, for I, 13 Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, 14 Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

The only example of alliteration throughout this sonnet is .

Possible Answers:

"Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again," (line 11)

"like an usurp'd town" (line 5)

"Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." (line 14)

"break, blow, burn," (line 4)

"Batter my heart, three-person'd God;" (line 1)

Correct answer:

"break, blow, burn," (line 4)

Explanation:

"break, blow, burn," (line 4) is the only example of alliteration throughout this sonnet, as each word has the same sound at its beginning.

Which of the following are exhibit rhyme that is both slant rhyme and an end rhyme?

Possible Answers:

All of the answers

"part" (line 10) and "art" (line 12)

"fall" (line 9) and "all" (line 11)

"gone" (line 6) and "dissolution" (line 8)

"harm" (line 1) and "arm" (line 3)

Correct answer:

"gone" (line 6) and "dissolution" (line 8)

Explanation:

"Gone" (line 6) and "dissolution" (line 8) are examples of a slant rhyme and an end rhyme. "Slant rhymes" are rhymes with similar but not exactly the same sounds, and "end rhymes" are rhymes of the final syllables in two lines of poetry.

"—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain" (line 11) is an example of ___________.

Possible Answers:

apostrophe

metaphor

personification

simile

metonym

Correct answer:

personification

Explanation:

"—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain" (line 11) is an example of personification, as "personification" is a figure of speech where an inanimate object or idea possesses human attributes or abilities. Here, "Casualty" (an idea) is obstructing the sun and rain. An idea cannot obstruct the sun or rain. Humans have the ability to obstruct objects, though they cannot obstruct the sun or rain.

"Oh no, her heart is such a citadel" (line 12) is an example of a(n) __________.

Possible Answers:

personification

metaphor

satire

hyperbole

simile

Correct answer:

metaphor

Explanation:

"Oh no, her heart is such a citadel" is an example of a metaphor, as a "metaphor" is a figure of speech that is used to compare two objects without the use of words like "like" or "as." Stella's heart is being compared to a citadel.

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